Machine Shop Demonstration: Gear Cutting

Description: Are you interested in learning how to make gears in your home workshop? Learn how to produce gears using common machinery and basic tooling. - Robert will be demonstrating the “form-cutter” approach to gear production. This is the simplest form of gear production that is accessible to the basic machinist with non-specialized machinery. The demonstration will include indexing with a dividing head, calculation of gear blank dimensions, gear cutting theory, and some discussion of competing gear cutting methods and their contexts.

This demonstration is free (with paid Museum admission), but registration is required!

Charles River Museum

Located on the scenic banks of the Charles River in the historic 1814 Boston Manufacturing Company textile mill, the Charles River Museum of Industry occupies a section of the mill complex that is on the National Register of Historic Places as America’s first factory.

Hands-on exhibits feature American innovation and invention from 1812 to the present day, with exhibits on Waltham’s Boston Manufacturing Company, the Metz Company, the American Waltham Watch Company, and Orient bicycles from the Waltham Manufacturing Company. In addition to our permanent collection, the CRMII has revolving temporary exhibits and has private events throughout the year.